Toilet-seat cover



y 1929. 1.. R. OCONNOR 1,713,674

TOILET SEAT COVER Filed June 2'7, 1927 INVENTOR Patented May 21, 1929.

UNITED STATES 1,713,674- I PATENT OFFICE.

-LOUIS R. O'CONNOR, OF SEATTLE, .WASHINGTON.

TOILET- SEAT COVER.

Application filed June 27, 1927. Serial No. 201,724.

This invention relates to improvements in individual toilet seat; covers for comfort stations, or other toilets used by the general public, and aims primarily to provide a toilet seat cover for effectively and properly protecting the user of, the toilet and which is especiallydesigned for automatic removal from the toilet seat by the flushing water after use.

contemplated by the present invention is a sanitary toilet seat cover embodying a sheet of suitable flexible material arcuately and rectilinearly slitted to form and provide a rim, a central and forwardly disposed flap or tab, and curvilenear side flaps or tabs, one of said flaps' having detachable connection with said rim and adapted to be severed therefrom when the toilet cover is to be used, all of which are important features and objects of the invention and are to be correlated in the broad aim of enhancing the efliciency of the device for general use.

The above, and additional objects which will hereinafter be more specifically treated are attained by such means as are shown in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification, and then more' clearly pointed out in the claims, which are a pended hereto, and form part of this application.

With reference to the drawings, in which there is illustrated several embodiments of the invention, and throughout thevseveral views of which like characters of reference designate similar parts:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a toilet seat cover comprehended by the present invention, as it would appear prior to use.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofgthe same, as it would appear when in use.

Beginning the more detailed descri tion linear inner edges and curvilinear outer edges. The numeral13 designates a series or line of perforations formed at the rear convergent terminal of the central flap 9, whereby the latter is rapidly and readily separated or severed from the remainder of the sheet 7' by the user, when the cover is also permanently united to the sheet 7 at their rear ends and are flexed thereat to depend therefrom when the device is in use, all as more clearly illustrated in Fig. 2.

In practice a supply of the toilet seat covers of the invention are stored in a suit- .able container adjacent the toilet, wherefrom they are readily and individually removed when required, whereupon the perforated connection of the flap orflaps with the remainder of the cover is severed, causing such flaps to drop. The user then places the 'cover upon the toilet seat with the flaps of such cover depending or extending downwardly within the toilet bowl, so that when the toilet is flushed after use the swirling action of the flushing water within said bowl will exert a downward and inward pull upon the flaps hanging therein, which in turn exert a circumferential pull upon the rim of the correlated toilet seat cover portion of the same, to thereby loosen such portion from the seat and draw the same inwardly and downwardly into the bowl, wherefrom it is discharged with the flushing water into the drain pipe.

Manifestl therefore, the devices of the invention Wlll effectively and positively protect the users of public toilets against con- 'tracting disease therefrom, is extremely simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, convenient and sanitary in use, and is automatically removed from the toilet seat after use by the flushing water without any manual actuation whatsoever.

- While I have herein shown and described the invention with sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to understand the mode of construction and the principlesinvolved, it is to be understood that there is no intentional limitation herein to thespecific form and precise details of construction herein disclosed, except as expressly definedby the appended claims, and that various modifications of said construction may be forward-end and detachably connected thereto at its rear end, and bendable side flaps integral at their rear ends with,said sheet and equal in length to said central flap.

2. A toilet seat cover embodying a relatively thin sheet of flexible material symmetrically slitted upon each side of its longitudinal axis to provide a centrally and forwardly disposed bendable flap integral therewith at its forward end and detachably connected thereto at its rear end, and areuately slitted upon each side of said axis in opposed relation toprovide bendable side flaps having curvilinear outer edges, said side flaps being integral at their rear ends with said sheet and equal in length to said central flap.

3. A toilet seat cover embodying a sheet of flexible material symmetrically and convergently slitted upon each side of its lo'ngitudinal axis to provide a bendable centrally and forwardly disposed convergent flap,

integral therewith at its forward end and detachably connected thereto at its rear end, and 'arcuately slitted upon each side of said axis in opposed relation to provide bendable side flaps having curvilinear outer edges, v

said side flaps being integral .at their rear ends with said sheet and equal in length to said central flap.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LOUIS OCONNOR. 

